Chaz... I've been fishing Bass tournaments for 38+ years. In that span, I've owned many boats (mostly Skeeters). Some of those boats ran so fast they'd move your hairline. About the time I turned 50, I decided I didn't need a new pickup truck & biggest, fastest Bass boat every 3 years. So I bought my little Skeeter SS 90 to fish 3 tournaments a year from, & my new 1999 Ford F150. I still have both, but as stated earlier, the inadequate sized live wells force me to sell the boat. Recently, a friend of mine with a Pro Team 190 TX invited me to fish Choke Canyon Lake with him. Choke is a shallow lake that gets real nasty real quick with any wind at all. I, like you, felt that a tin boat was not something a serious Bass fisherman would fish from, particularly on a lake like Choke where you'd be like a bobber bouncing all over the place. He wanted to show off his new rig, so I went. Boy, was I surprised! The wind did pick up, but he held us on a point in the open water. The 12 volt t/motor was fighting hard to keep us there, but the boat was NOT bobber bouncing. The ride back to the landing was drier than it would have been in my 16' Skeeter. I was impressed enough to look this boat over when we came out of the water. The storage is more than adequate for the kind of fishing I do & it will handle my 7.5' rods easily. Totally unimpressed with the trailer setup, but I can easily fix that. Anyway, I know where you're coming from in your assessment, but we were both wrong. That tin boat is not necessarily a downgrade. Geezer.
